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Expected Dividend Yield |
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Expected dividend yield Total amount of dividends received during the life of a futures contract or total dividends received for holding a particular stock one year. See: Current yield. Expected Dividend Yield The yield an investor expects to receive over one year when he/she purchases a stock or other security that pays dividends. The dividend yield is the amount an investor receives in dividends in one year divided by the purchase price of the security. The expected dividend yield is what the investor expects to receive at purchase, rather than what he/she actually receives. While calculating the expected dividend yield has a role in making investment decisions, it is important to note that the expected dividend yield may not match up with the actual dividend yield. See also: Expected return, Actual return. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If the company has adjusted its current or historic dividend yield, auditors should also evaluate if such adjustments were reflected in the expected dividend yield (by examining press releases, historic dividend yield rates, etc. The model assumes that stock prices will increase at the risk-free interest rate (B15) minus the expected dividend yield (B16), then plus or minus the price volatility (B12) assumed for the stock. We examined at length the potential effects of various definitions of the expected dividend yield on a Litzenberger and Ramaswamy experiment. |
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